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  • August 2004 (Revised September 2004)
  • Background Note

Note on Bond Valuation and Returns

All securities can be evaluated based on certain common characteristics: value, rate of return, risk, maturity, and so forth. This case examines how bonds are valued and how their rates of return are computed. It begins with basic definitions and features of... View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Valuation; Investment Return
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Chacko, George C., Peter A. Hecht, Vincent Dessain, and Monika Stachowiak. "Note on Bond Valuation and Returns." Harvard Business School Background Note 205-008, August 2004. (Revised September 2004.)
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

School finance professor Luis Viceira, an expert on investment management and capital markets, offered his views on how this happened, what it means, and how high the Dow may go in the future. Jim Aisner:  Last week the Dow closed above... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • December 2004 (Revised January 2006)
  • Case

Simon's Hostile Tender for Taubman (A)

Simon Property Group launched a hostile tender offer for upscale Taubman Centers. This case discusses issues of Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) valuation, financial policy, and corporate governance, as Robert Taubman and his company's independent directors must... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Valuation; Investment; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Real Estate Industry
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El-Hage, Nabil N. "Simon's Hostile Tender for Taubman (A)." Harvard Business School Case 205-052, December 2004. (Revised January 2006.)
  • 24 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say (Part 2)

We asked recent HBS alumni to reflect on their time at—and after—HBS to answer the question “Is the MBA worth it?” Here are their thoughts on the business school experience, the value of an MBA degree, and how to best prepare for HBS.... View Details

    Jill J. Avery

    Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

    Keywords: consumer products; arts; advertising; automobiles; retailing; fashion; hotels & motels; food; beverage
    • January 2011 (Revised January 2015)
    • Case

    Matrix Capital Management (A)

    By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
    Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details
    Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Asset Management; Cash Flow; Stock Shares; Financial Markets; Investment Funds; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Strategy; Valuation; Financial Services Industry
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    Baker, Malcolm P., and David Lane. "Matrix Capital Management (A)." Harvard Business School Case 211-017, January 2011. (Revised January 2015.)
    • May 2011 (Revised December 2011)
    • Case

    Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village: America's Largest Foreclosure

    By: Arthur I Segel, Gregory S. Feldman, James T. Liu and Elizabeth C. Williamson
    In July 2010, William Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square, is considering a potential new opportunity: the acquisition of the distressed Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village ("ST /PCV") complex. The property had recently been abandoned by its owners and had come... View Details
    Keywords: Property; Risk Management; Opportunities; Valuation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Outcome or Result; Acquisition; North and Central America
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    Segel, Arthur I., Gregory S. Feldman, James T. Liu, and Elizabeth C. Williamson. "Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village: America's Largest Foreclosure." Harvard Business School Case 211-106, May 2011. (Revised December 2011.)
    • 02 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    10 Trends to Watch in 2024

    The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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    Overcoming the Outcome Bias: Making Intentions Matter

    By: Ovul Sezer, Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino and Max Bazerman
    People often make the well-documented mistake of paying too much attention to the outcomes of others’ actions while neglecting information about the original intentions leading to those outcomes. In five experiments, we examine interventions aimed at reducing this... View Details
    Keywords: Outcome Bias; Intentions; Joint Evaluation; Judgment; Separate Evaluation; Goals and Objectives; Prejudice and Bias; Judgments; Performance Evaluation; Outcome or Result
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    Sezer, Ovul, Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino, and Max Bazerman. "Overcoming the Outcome Bias: Making Intentions Matter." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 137 (November 2016): 13–26.
    • October 2000 (Revised November 2000)
    • Case

    Handspring

    By: Myra M. Hart and Mary Rotelli
    Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins, founders of Palm Computing, have launched a new venture--Handspring. They are preparing for an IPO in the spring of 2000. When the markets begin to collapse and their investment bankers suggest a significantly lower price, they must... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Investment Banking; Initial Public Offering; Valuation; Business Processes; Computer Industry; Technology Industry
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    Hart, Myra M., and Mary Rotelli. "Handspring." Harvard Business School Case 801-112, October 2000. (Revised November 2000.)
    • November 2011
    • Case

    Brink's Company: Activists Push for a Spin-off

    By: Suraj Srinivasan, Aldo Sesia and Amy Kaser
    The case studies the decision of the security services corporation Brink's Company to spin-off its home security division from the rest of the company. The decision followed intense pressure on the company by three activist hedge funds that felt that Brink's was... View Details
    Keywords: Activist Investors; Spin-off; Leveraged Recapitalization; Debt; Valuation; Hedge Funds; Conglomerates; Investment Activism
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    Srinivasan, Suraj, Aldo Sesia, and Amy Kaser. "Brink's Company: Activists Push for a Spin-off." Harvard Business School Case 112-055, November 2011.
    • 17 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

    applicants who will flock to them are those that value on-the-job growth opportunities. “Money costs money, and this stuff doesn’t cost a lot but requires people to get into a room and talk about how to meaningfully recognize performance... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 16 Jul 2008
    • Op-Ed

    What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

    must expect health plans to direct patients to excellent providers, not those provider networks that offer the biggest discounts.” What to do? The most important single change necessary is for employers to think about health care in terms of value, not cost. View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health
    • June 2001
    • Case

    ESL Golf (A)

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Christopher R Gordon
    Todd Peterson and his colleagues have spent five weeks analyzing CMP Capital Partners' potential leveraged buyout of ESL Golf. They are about to present their analysis and bid proposal to the investment committee, consisting of all CMP partners, which must approve any... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Private Equity; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Valuation
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    Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Christopher R Gordon. "ESL Golf (A)." Harvard Business School Case 801-429, June 2001.
    • 07 Sep 2017
    • Blog Post

    How One Organization Increased Their Internship Yield

    In their reciprocal pursuits of internships and interns, HBS MBA candidates and participating employers invest a considerable amount of interest, time and, in many cases, money. With so much at stake, both hopes and anxieties run high,... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing
    • 14 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

    the value they produce. The researchers correlated the network data to measures of success in innovation, such as investments in research and development and the number of awarded patents and their impact.... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • September 1994
    • Case

    Leadership Problems at Salomon (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro
    Deryck Maughan, a vice chairman and co-head of investment banking at Salomon Brothers, learns that his superiors have been less than candid about their knowledge of bidding improprieties by the firm's government trading desk. He must decide what, if anything, he should... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Crime and Corruption; Rank and Position; Financial Services Industry
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    Paine, Lynn S., and Michael Santoro. "Leadership Problems at Salomon (A)." Harvard Business School Case 395-044, September 1994.
    • 2017
    • Article

    New Venture Milestones and the First Female Board Member

    By: Alicia DeSantola, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Julie Battilana
    We explore the antecedents of the addition of the first woman to the boards of directors of entrepreneurial ventures. Building on research on resource dependency, we propose that new ventures are most likely to add the first woman to their boards at three developmental... View Details
    Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Diversity; Technology Industry; United States
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    DeSantola, Alicia, Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Julie Battilana. "New Venture Milestones and the First Female Board Member." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2017).
    • 24 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

    repositioning costs and illustrate with two simple models how repositioning costs may facilitate differentiation and affect the value of a firm’s capability to reduce repositioning costs through investments... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • July 2008
    • Case

    Aurora Capital Group - Douglas Dynamics

    Aurora Capital, a U.S. Private Equity firm, contemplates whether to acquire Douglas Dynamics, the leading U.S. maker of snow plows. Does a business that is highly dependent on the weather, and is seasonal, make a good LBO candidate? This case provides a good... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Private Equity; Investment; Goods and Commodities; Value Creation
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    El-Hage, Nabil N., Birche Fishback, Blake Gottesman, and Michael Marino. "Aurora Capital Group - Douglas Dynamics." Harvard Business School Case 209-010, July 2008.
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